Our thoughts are with ya man!
It's strange in a way how many of us enter into the care of animals for companionship knowing the pain that awaits us down an all too short road. Maybe we're better for having known them and having selflessly provided the care and love they may otherwise have not known. And yet again and again our hearts prove vast and uncomprising in showing the same to the next joyful addition in our lives whether furred, feathered or scaled.